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Parents and students press Burlington School Committee for answers on youth survey funding and opt-outs
Summary
Public commenters at the Burlington School Committee meeting pressed officials Tuesday for details about funding and why some students who sought to opt out of a Youth Risk Behavior Survey were not removed.
Public commenters at the Burlington School Committee meeting pressed officials Tuesday for more information about how the district’s middle‑school Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) was funded and why some students who had sought to opt out were not removed.
Hilda Darien, a public commenter, said press accounts from 2018 showed the town received a $50,000 grant from the Leahy Clinic to digitize the YRBS and that Leahy later committed $550,000 per year over three years to local programming. “How are we supposed to think anything other than you sold the souls and the innocence of our children for $1,650,000?” Darien asked, referencing the…
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